Gay Marriage Public Policy
Is it true that……………?
even if DOMA didn’t exist…………………..
Gay Marriage STILL WOULD NOT be transferable from state to state?
Section 2 says that states don’t have to recognize same-sex “relationships between persons of the same sex.”
Constitutional law expert Laurence Tribe has said that Section 2 is essentially redundant to an already existing provision of the constitution that allows states to ignore the laws of another state if they are against the home state’s public policy.
That’s why GLAAD is only challenging section 3 in court, not section 2.
So it’s NOT DOMA that’s preventing gay marriages from being transferable from state to state.
Iron: of DOMA
Yes, that is why each state can pass laws to ban or recognize gay marriage.
The campaign to repeal DOMA has nothing to do with having one state recognize gay marriages performed in another state.
The campaign to repeal DOMA is simply about giving couples that are married in states where gay marriage is legal the same 1,138 federal rights of marriage (including joint income tax returns, shared social security benefits and immigration rights) that heterosexual couples current have.
Same-Sex Marriage Debate
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Andrew Grice: Capturing the public mood is one thing – keeping it is quite another
In his first speech to the Conservatives’ annual conference after becoming party leader, David Cameron endorsed gay marriages. He didn’t know how Tory activists would react. Some old farts sat on their hands, stony-faced. But after a pregnant pause, applause began to ripple around the hall.
